Legal documents concerning maritime fur trade, 1821-1826 by Abiel Winship
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A signed copy of a manuscript indenture, dated February 6, 1822, between Winship, John French, and William Tucker, detailing French and Tucker's loan to Winship in exchange for a portion of the profits resulting from the ship Zephyr's trade route. A receipt for the loan, the Zephyr's bill of lading, and instructions to the captain of the Zephyr, William Cleaveland, are attached. Other documents include two signed manuscript copies of an 1822 indenture between Winship and various merchants and creditors, describing and assigning cargo on board the ship General Gates and the schooner Wasp; a manuscript copy of an 1824 indenture assigning half of Winship's interest in the cargo of the General Gates to William B. Swett & Co.; an undated manuscript deposition signed by Benjamin Wheeler, agent of the ship Alexander, attesting to the Alexander's dates of departure and return to Boston in the 1790s, and to Abiel Winship's ownership of a portion of the cargo; and a receipt (in Spanish) and invoice related to the expenses of the ship O'Cain. Also includes an ALS from Michael Hogan to Charles G. Loring, the administrator of Abiel Winship's estate, enclosing the O'Cain's statement of account from January 1823 to December 1825 as well as copies of documents related to the O'Cain's removal from the coast of Peru following a warning by Peruvian officials in 1823.
Otter (Brig) logbook, 1809-1811 by Otter (Brig)
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The logbook of the brig Otter details a shipping voyage from the South Atlantic to Kauai, Hawaii, the Queen Charlotte Islands, and cruising along the northwest coast of North America, June 1809-April 1811. The logbook is a continuation of the voyage aboard the Otter begun in Log 1809O. The brig's home port was Boston; the owners were Jonathan and Thomas C. Amory, Oliver Keating, and Dixey Wilds; the master was Samuel Hill; the logbook keeper was Robert Kemp. The logbook includes notes on at least four deaths on board; diseases among the crew, especially scurvy; the fur trade; navigation; indigenous peoples encountered; black sailors; episodes of punishment of the merchant mariners on board; and whales sighted during the voyage. During its voyage the Otter spoke the ships Aduelpea, Derby, Hamilton, Juno (out of Russia), Katherine, and Ocain (out of Boston), the whaling ship Walker, and the brig Lydia.
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